Liverpool
英 ['livəpu:l]
美
英語の語源
- Liverpool
- English city on the River Mersey, Liuerpul (c.1190) "Pool with Muddy Water," from Old English lifer "thick, clotted water" + pol (see pool (n.1)). "The original reference was to a pool or tidal creek now filled up into which two streams drained" [Victor Watts, "Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names," 2004]. The adjective and noun Liverpudlian (with jocular substitution of puddle for pool) is attested from 1833.
例文
- 1. Liverpool grew fat on the basis of the slave trade.
- リバプールは奴隷貿易で肥えている。
- 2.His loss would be a crushing blow to Liverpool 's title hopes.
- 彼の欠場はリバプールの優勝希望に致命的な打撃となるだろう。
- 3.We 've been on a bit of a downer since the Liverpool game.
- リバプールの試合以来、私たちは少しがっかりしています。
- 4.A mate of mine used to play soccer for Liverpool .
- 私の友人がリバプールチームでボールを蹴ったことがある。/
- 5.Mourners are to stage a candlelit vigil in Liverpool .
- 哀悼者はリバプールでろうそくの祈りを行う準備をしている。/
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